The DoJ pulled $1.5 million in funding from Maine's prison system over a trans inmate's housing. These women deserve better.

Mark Carney may have won the title of Prime Minister, but he has lost the moral right to represent the people of Canada—a ...

As if the story of the 10 Louisiana inmate's escape wasn't crazy enough, it looks like they had even more help pulling off their getaway.

U.S. criminal justice policies have led to a 585 percent increase in the incarcerated women’s population since 1980 and have ...

The arrests come as half the escaped inmates remain at large, and Louisiana police scramble to find them Two women have been ...

Before this week, the dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hasn’t attended the premiere of one of his films in more than ...

Imprisoned Iranian journalist and activist Sepideh Gholian’s book is a poignant account of resistance and solidarity in ...

This year, more than ever, it's impossible not to think about the execution of my best friend, Shirin Alamhooli, on May 9, ...

Besides questioning and threatening friends of an Iranian-Armenian pastor re-arrested for practicing his faith, authorities in Iran have detained his wife and put her in solitary confinement, ...

We returned to Evin Prison, begging them to give us her body ... about the ongoing human rights violations and persecution of women and religious minorities in Iran, www.MarzisJourney.com.

On 19 April 1975, nine blindfolded prisoners, their hands tied, were taken off a minibus in northern Tehran’s Evin hills ... connected to them from inside prison,” Naderipour said.